Inside the cell, glucose can be stored as glycogen or enter the glycolytic pathway for degradation.

“now glucose can come in so um when I teach glycolysis to my class and I use one of the textbook figures where it starts out with glucose I put the brakes on and say no we need to put a membrane barrier in here we need to get glucose into the cell and then it can be metabolized and it's usually once the glucose is in the cell then there are two things that can happen it can be stored as glycogen but if there's an energy need it will enter the glycolytic pathway and be de be degraded”